Project Nightmare Pt.2

Welcome to Horsepower TV, where we've got a pair of salt and pepper ponies in the shop today. Now, this one's an old war horse that's seen more than its share of competition over the years. It's a 65 K code coup.

That's a multiyear Mustang Club of America winner. And today it's winning on the quarter mile just as easily turning 12 fifties at over 100 and 12 miles an hour.

It turns those times using a small block for that's been stroked at 347 cubic inches. Then finished off with a comp cams roller valve train,

a pair of Ed Brock heads and intake and a carb from quick fuel technologies.

It also uses a T five tram

and a nine inch rear end with a 3 to 9 cog to help plant all that power.

Now, for sure, this is a sleeper in a plain white wrapper and that is what helps it sneak up on its competition. Yeah. Well, speaking of sleepers, this 96 Gt Mustang of mine, you use a wake up call. Now we introduced this project nightmares. We call it a few weeks ago.

That's when we stiffened up the chassis with some

rock Subra connectors, some of their shocks

and lowering springs.

Finally, we added these cool but neck GTX wheels and Yokohama rubber.

Now that got us handled in the looks department, but

if you're gonna look bad, you better have something to back it up.

So today, we thought we'd get our hands a little dirty trying to get a little extra horsepower out of this car's 4.6 L engine. Now, before we both anything on,

see what we got to work with?

What about it? How was 100 and 77 horsepower hit you? It didn't hit me very well. I think you got a pack meal instead of a thoroughbred. But you know what,

you've got a lot of work ahead of you. Uh What do you mean? I've got a lot of work ahead.

One of the most effective ways to pick up the power on just about any engine is to let it breathe.

Now, get rid of the factory restrictions on the intake and exhaust and, well, you're gonna have a car that runs better,

sounds better and probably gets a little bit better mileage as well.

Now, to help us achieve those goals, we're gonna replace the factory throttle body with this 75 millimeter unit from BBK.

Now, this thing flows up to 35% more air than the stocker

attaches right up to the factory linkage.

And the best part is it's 50 state legal.

Now, once we get that thing bolted up, we're gonna add this moroso cold air kit. It uses a high flow tube and

A K and N reusable filter.

Now, before you bear down on this project, make sure you disconnect the battery, then you can start removing the stock inlet plumbing,

starting with connectors for the air 10th

and mass air sensors.

Then listen the clamp holding the throttle body in place,

remove the air cleaner retaining bolt.

Next disconnect the I AC

at PC B lines

before removing the air inlet tube.

Now this thing should come out as a unit

from the fender. Well,

hey, there he goes. Not so bad.

Next, the stock throttle body can go. And first thing we do is remove the linkage,

then the throttle position sensor

and the bow toting the throttle body to the manifold.

Hey, good job. And just in time too

now to get the most performance out of our modifications, we wanna go ahead and port match the intake. So the opening there matches that of our new throttle body

and do that. We just take the gasket

and we lay it over the opening right here

and we take a marker.

So we'll know how much to remove with the dye grinder.

Now, we can remove the gasket and get busy with the dye grinder. Oh And don't forget to stuff a rag up inside the intake to keep the grindings out of the motor.

Hey, that looks pretty good.

Now, we can go ahead and install this new bigger throttle body using these longer boats from the kit.

Next, we can reconnect the TPS sensor

and reattach all the linkage.

Well, now we can get that moroso induction set up ready installed. But first, we need to remove this mass airflow sensor. It's held in place with these four studs right here.

Next, using hardware from the kit, we can go ahead and attach

this air filter adapter

and the mass airflow sensor

to the heat shield.

Then install both blue hose connectors with the tapered one going on to the throttle body end of the tube.

Now install a filter element.

Finally, we can slip the whole assembly right into place. Now, you wanna make sure that your clamps are properly positioned

and that they're good and tight

to prevent any air leaks.

Now, the final steps of course, are to reconnect your hoses plus your mass airflow sensor.

Here we go.

And your air temp sensor

tell you what man, that is one sharp looking set up and it bolted in pretty easy too.

Yeah, it only set us back about 195 for the throttle body, another 95 for the cold air kit. Of course, the real payoff is well, you guessed it horsepower. We'll see if we gained any right after the break. Stay tuned.

Welcome back to the shop where we've just helped Joe's GT Mustang here. Breathe a little bit better. Thanks to the addition of a BBK 75 millimeter throttle body

and a cold air kit from Moroso. I guess it's about time for us to see the results of our respiratory improvements. You ready? You bet, buddy. Here we go.

Hey, 100 and 88 horsepower. Now that's 11 over our baseline and definitely a good improvement. Well worth our time and effort. I'll say now you gotta remember that we're not getting the ram air effect here in the shop. Plus the temperature in here is a lot warmer than outside. So we're definitely leaving a few horsepower on the table.

Now that we've got project nightmare breathing more deeply. Let's see what we can do to help it, exhale more efficiently. Of course, one of the best ways to do that is with a set of large diameter pipes and a pair of free flowing muffler.

No doubt about it, cat backs are fairly inexpensive, easy to install and effective ways to improve your exhaust flow.

And as a side benefit, most of them give you a much more healthy, aggressive exhaust note to boot.

Hey, sounds good to me, Matt, while Joe's getting his mustang ready to go in the air, let me show you what we've got for it. Once we get rid of those old pipes, we're gonna bolt up this Flowmaster American Thunder system

that replaces the stock parts perfectly. Now, the head pipe and muffler come

welded from the factory

and the tail pipes feature 2.5 inch mandril bent steel

with these polished stainless tips. Oh, and here's something else you're gonna like. They also come with these factory bent hooks that'll work perfectly with the original rubber hangers.

And that mellow rumble is gonna be a big improvement over the stock hiss coming out of this thing. Now,

of course, if you're doing this at home in the driveway, make sure you support your vehicle safely on jack stands and 01 of these exhaust pipe cutters from the parts store makes a quick and easy job of getting rid of the old pipe.

We're gonna start the installation of our new exhaust system with the tail pipes first

just set them up over the axle like that

and let the tail pipes hang free for now.

Next slip the tail pipe into the outlet of the muffler

and connect the flans on the head pipe

to the one on the muffler,

then slip the hooks

into the factory rubber hangers.

Finally use the clamps from the kit to support the back end of the muffler

and just snug them down.

The next thing you wanna do is check for at least a half inch clearance between the new system and your drive train,

suspension components, brake and fuel lines. Then once you're happy with that, go ahead and tighten down the clamps.

You could weld it solid or at the local muffler shop do it for you.

Finally, we get to hear what this thing sounds like and even better

what it performs like on the dyno Jet.

All right, so far, so good.

Hey, man, house 204 horsepower. Hit you, man. That sounds terrific.

Now, if you remember we started out with 100 and 77 for a baseline, then we got it to 188 after bolting on the throttle body and cold air kit. And

it looks to me like we picked up another 16 horsepower with the exhaust system.

Yeah, which by the way, only s set us back less than 300 bucks. But

hey, how do you put a price on that healthy muscle car sound, man.

It sounds to me like we need to take a little bit of a break right now, but we're gonna be back to shed a little bit of light on yet another upgrade on project nightmare here. So stick with us.

Hi, welcome back to horsepower TV.

Where today? Much to my partner

chagrin. It's Mustang Day here in the shop. We just made my project nightmare a better breather with a new air intake and exhaust. In fact, we almost picked up an extra 30 horsepower on the dyno Jet.

Now, these final improvements won't make any more power, but they should prove very enlightening.

Apparently, Joe Shops for cars the same way he does magazines. He only looks at the covers now. He thought these were pretty cool. But check out what's behind this one.

Not cool.

We're gonna go ahead and replace the stock tail lights with some that are not only gonna work better, but they're also gonna give his mustang a more youthful contemporary look

too bad. They don't have something that works like that on Joe.

You're one to talk about age.

You know, when he was born, the Dead Sea was only a little sick, sick jokes. Aside, here's what he's talking about. These Euro lights come from A PC and we got ours with the carbon fiber finish

to match the pony's black paint.

Here's how easy they are to install

after getting the trunk liner out of the way

removed, the taillight housing, retaining nuts,

then twist out the bulb sockets.

That was pretty easy. Now, we just reverse that procedure starting, of course with the bolts.

Ok. Chuck, try the brakes.

Hey, that's a definite improvement. Now, let's see if we can improve things up front

before we remove our old headlight assemblies. Let me show you what we're gonna replace them with these projection light assemblies also come from A PC and they use the same lighting technology

as a lot of high end cars for improved illumination.

Of course, we went ahead and ordered the matching corner lamps too and I gotta tell you, not only are they gonna look good, but they're also gonna install just as easily as those tail lights did

remove the retaining nut for the corner lamps. First,

then the top clip for the headlight bucket

slip, a small box end wrench over these plastic tabs to compress the retaining tabs.

Now, we can remove the corner lamp assembly

and the headlight assembly comes straight out

so we can unplug the bulb connection.

The projector bulb here needs a little bit of extra clearance on the headlight bucket. So I've already marked the area that we need to remove and I'm gonna cut it out with our aerosol.

Finally, we just reverse the order of disassembly

and we can plug in our new bulb connector

and we're ready for our new corner lamp.

Wow, those look great. Now, remember these are high intensity lights so you'll have to have them adjusted properly. So you don't blind any oncoming drivers. Yeah, like uh old Chevy guys who are long in the tooth and short on vision.

Well, maybe I don't see so good, but at least I look good. Now, take a look at this. We're gonna take a short break. So, stick with us.

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